The owner isn't being honest; a Nile monitor lizard is not a tame pet! they are pretty aggressive by nature. Not as bad as a komodo, but enough to
be dangerous, and yes, they can and will eat pets (maybe small kids, too!). Really hope they can locate this one.

Florida has it BAD these days. Invasive snakes and lizards are way past the Everglades; clear up to the central part of the state, and that was some
years back when I was down there. Just a few years ago, they caught an African rock python in St, Pete. I am more than half convinced we had some
large snake in our plumbing, too. The shower acted, well, weird. Drained perfectly fine one day, very slowly the neck, fine again later. No normal
clog behaves like that; it was like something was in there. Had an interesting "burrow" near the fence, too.

The monitor lizards in Florida are very hard on the local wildlife, and dangerous. Hard to imagine someone having one six feet long as a "pet"!

it will be someones pet Komodo Dragon that has escaped, they will take a number of animals, they have bacteria in their mouth, they bite and leave the
animal to die of bacterial poison, then walk up and eat it, it is not a stand up humanoid type lizard, behave yourself

This doesn't sound right anything thats 6 feet long can't be only 25 pounds.
Maybe 250 pounds ( ha ha) those things are pretty solid??? Well I hope I am wrong I would hate to run into a 250 pound
lizard sunning it self in my back yard.

Originally posted by djz3ro
I have an interest in this kind of story, had high hopes for this one but you lost me at....

Originally posted by rootbranch2012Jeremiah 9

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I mean, sure the line about Basilisks (one of my favourite lizards) is relevant (if you're into that kind of thing). But I'd much prefer to hear
your opinion on the story rather than a quote from the most ridiculously over rated book ever written (and I don't mean 50 Shades of Grey or even
Twilight!) *sigh*

lol i'm a pantheist myself
but thought the quote apropos

though a bit overlong though.

problem is given the state and priorities of education these days rootbranch [or anyone else for that matter]was hardly going to be able to quote from
Kipling or Bullfinch's Mythology .

I had a Goanna creep into my tent one night camping down in the Shoalhaven. I'm not sure who got the bigger shock, me or him

. I heard a weird
scraping sound and when I realised something was in the tent I sat bolt upright, the bloody thing jumped about a foot in the air, backed out and
scurried away. He would have been about 6 foot at least.

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